Uwe Matzat
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Uwe Matzat is an Assistant Professor of Sociology working in the Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Uwe’s areas of expertise include educational technology research -such as learning analytics, blended learning, and virtual agents- as well as the digital divide and social media research.
He is a supervisor (in Dutch: co-promotor) of the following Ph.D. students (in order of their starting date):
-Tudor Cristea
-Felix Koranteng
-Roxanne van der Puil
-Ran Zhang
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Uwe Matzat received his PhD from the University of Groningen within the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) in 2001. He conducted his research at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Toronto, and Eindhoven. He also graduated in Sociology at the University of Duisburg (Germany).
His research has been published in journals, such as Journal of Computer Mediated Communication,Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Social Networks, Computers & Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and many others. Uwe was Program Chair of several international conferences of the series General Online Research (http://www.gor.de). He was founding and (until 2016) serving editor of the International Journal of Internet Science.
Recent Publications
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Felix N. Koranteng,Uwe Matzat,Isaac Wiafe,Jaap Ham
Credibility in Persuasive Systems
(2023) -
Neil Guppy,Uwe Matzat,Jenilyn Agapito,Audon Archibald,Amy De Jaeger,Tania Heap,Ma Monica Moreno,Maria Mercedes Rodrigo,Silvia Bartolic
Student confidence in learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Higher Education Research and Development (2023) -
Rianne Conijn,Ad Kleingeld,Uwe Matzat,Chris Snijders
The fear of big brother
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (2022) -
Felix MR Koranteng,Jaap R.C. Ham,Isaac Wiafe,Uwe Matzat
The Role of Usability, Aesthetics, Usefulness and Primary Task Support in Predicting the Perceived Credibility of Academic Social Networking Sites
Behaviour & Information Technology (2022) -
Neil Guppy,David Boud,Tania Heap,Dominique Verpoorten,Uwe Matzat,Joanna Tai,Louise Lutze-Mann,Mary Roth,Patsie Polly,Jamie Lee Burgess
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage.
Higher Education (2022)
Ancillary Activities
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